Powerful administrative support has turned the company, to which generous orders of the gas monopoly have fallen, into a reseller of large diameter pipes from other manufacturers in Russia.
Gazprom stopped buying pipes for Nord Stream-2: a year and a half after their order, they seemed expensive to the gas monopoly.
Nikolay Yegorov took a controlling stake in the Zagorsky Pipe Plant as payment for assistance in securing financing from Sberbank.